Curriculum Vitae

 
Mgr. Miroslav Kubát, Ph.D.
 
Institutional Leadership & Academic Experience
  • Member of the Academic Senate, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava (2024–2026)
  • Assistant professor (odborný asistent) at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Ostrava (since 2015)

 
Professional Memberships and Activities
  • Editor-in-Chief of Glottometrics (since 2026)
  • Member at large of the IQLA - International Quantitative Linguistics Association (2025-2027)
  • Member of the editorial board of Glottometrics (since 2022)
  • Member of IQLA - International Quantitative Linguistics Association (since 2016)

     
Education
  • 2015 – doctor’s degree (Ph.D.) in General Linguistics and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
  • 2012 – master’s degree (Mgr.) in Czech Philology, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
  • 2010 – bachelor’s degree (Bc.) in Czech Philology, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
 
 
 
Research Grants
External & International Research Grants
  • Johannes Amos Comenius Programme (OP JAK)
    2025–2028: Biography of AI-attributed disinformation: A risky phenomenon through the prism of modern human sciences. (CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008724).
    Role: Team Leader of Work Package 1 (Linguistics).
  • Czech Science Foundation (GAČR)
    2022–2024: Quantitative Syntactic Stylistics of Contemporary Written Czech. (GA22-20632S).
    Role: Principal Investigator (Team Leader).
Internal Research Grants
  • 2025: Quantitative analysis of syntactic complexity in Czech texts, SGS04/FF/2025, University of Ostrava, team leader.
  • 2022: Quantitative analysis of texts of CzeSL-SGT corpus, SGS06/FF/2022, University of Ostrava, team leader.
  • 2019: Semantic analysis based on Neural Networks approaches, SGS07/UVAFM/2019, University of Ostrava, team leader.
  • 2018: Analysis of Context Specificity of Lemma using Neural Networks, SGS01/UVAFM/2018, University of Ostrava, team leader.
  • 2017: Application of Neural Networks in Diachronic and Synchronic Semantic Analysis of Texts, SGS02/UVAFM/2017 University of Ostrava, team member.
  • 2017: Implementation of new methods for the teaching of quantitative linguistic subjects at University of Ostrava, IRP201707 Universtity of Ostrava, team leader.
  • 2013: QUITA (Quantitative Index Text Analyzer) – Software Measuring Vocabulary Richness and Other Quantitative Features of Texts, IGA FF_2013_031, Palacký Univesity Olomouc, team member.

     
Stays Abroad
  • University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria), 2025.
  • Mathematical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (Slovakia), 2022.
  • University of Padova, Padova (Italy), 2017.
  • Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College, Beijing (China), 2017.
  • Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava (Slovakia), 2016.
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens (Greece), 2013.
  • University of Trier, Trier (Germany), 2013.
 
 
 
Organizing Conferences
  • International Conference on Corpus and Computational Linguistics Ostrava 2025, August 20-21. (Ostrava, Czechia)
  • International Workshop on Corpus and Computational Linguistics, May 28, 2024. (Ostrava, Czechia).
  • International Workshop on Corpus Stylistics and Stylometrics, June 21, 2023. (Ostrava, Czechia).

 
Selected Publications
  • Kubát, M., Chen, X. (2025). Quantitative Perspective on Stylistics: Syntactic Variation in Contemporary Written Czech. De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Kubát, M., Mačutek, J., Čech, R., Nogolová, M. (2024). Automatic Genre Classification of Czech Texts Based on Syntactic Functions. In: G. Giordano, M. Misuraca (eds.), New Frontiers in Textual Data Analysis, Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, 163-172.
  • Kubát, M., Mačutek, J., Čech, R. (2021). Communists spoke differently: An analysis of Czechoslovak and Czech annual presidential speeches. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(1), 138–152.
  • Kubát, M., Hůla, J., Chen, X., Čech, R., Milička, J. (2021). The lexical context in a style analysis: A word embeddings approach. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 17(2), 443-464.
  • Kubát, M. (2016). Kvantitativní analýza žánrů. University of Ostrava.
  • Kubát, M., Matlach, V., Čech, R. (2014). QUITA – Quantitative Index Text Analyzer. Lüdenscheid: RAM.
  • Kubát, M., Milička, J. (2013). Vocabulary Richness Measure in Genres. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 20(4), 339–349.

 
Teaching
  • Empirical research methods in linguistic
  • Linguistics - introductory course
  • Language corpora in practice
  • Linguistic approaches to literary text
  • Stylistics and theory of text
  • Editing, typography and graphics
  • Media literacy
  • Academic writing
  • Czech for Foreigners
  • Presenting skills seminar

 

Membership
  • IQLA - International Quantitative Linguistics Association
 
 
Reviewing
  • International Journal of Digital Humanities
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Discourse & Society
  • Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
  • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
  • Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
  • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
  • Glottometrics
  • Journal of Slavic Languages
  • Acta onomastica
  • Naše řeč

 

Science Popularization

  • Co-creator and Host of the Podcast Z Čejovny (since 2023). A podcast focused on linguistics, the Czech language and academic life.